Play an Acoustic Guitar with a Raspberry Pi

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A Raspberry Pi-driven mechanism was built to play an acoustic guitar; the project covers mechanical and material choices, rhythm and music reading, and hardware control. The software is Java-based using Dropwizard for the front end and Pi4J for GPIO/hardware control, and the talk reviews lessons learned from both the hardware and the Java software development.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:16Why build a guitar robot
3. 7:30Hardware setup and power
4. 10:23Software and controllers
5. 14:47Testing and timing
6. 18:02Debugging challenges
7. 22:19MusicXML and tempo
8. 26:19Real-time control issues
9. 29:15Plectrum movement demo
10. 33:39Live demo and results
11. 39:49Conclusion and Q&A

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